pins being much "better representec than fir, except on a few 

 gentle north slopes bordering Grouse Plat. Here the fir is 

 putting up a good fight, lout is hardly lil:ely to drive out the 



pine, which seeras to have etc reed a little later in this in- 



c 

 stanie. On Savmill C-ulcli a fe,irly steep north slope has 



a covering of light "brush that is almost obs censed "by a very dense 

 stand of fir and pine reproduction, following the cutting of 

 a mimed stand some fifteen years ago. It is too early to tell 

 wha t the composition of the resulting forest trill "be, but the 

 pine v/ould seem to have the advantage, judging from comparetive 

 growth rates at other places. In the instances mentioned the 

 reproduction is so dense that the development of the stand T7ill 

 "be retarded tc a marked degree unless some marl:et can "be developed 

 for thinniggs. 



BUBH3: 



The influence ox severe "burns on tlie mi::ed type mr,y be 

 seen at the head of Id'otle Ditch Creel; nhere ceoiaotlitis rrith 

 occasional fire coid {\-rou;)s of pine have followed an old fire. 

 This one instance does not indicc.ta nucli, hor/evcr, e::cept the 

 dif fictil:cy the iorest may lic.ve in re-establishing itself. The 

 !10 fires seen to have been as injurious to fir as to pine yotur; 

 3'roi.rcli. The bunch ^rasE of open stands serves to carry the fire 

 ac woll or better than the brash and little of rained stands , but 

 "he damage is u.stir.lly much less severe in pure stands. vThether 

 fires have a 5-0 od effect in opening the ground to seed in the 



